Team Member: Sam Morgan / Team Sport Factory

Race Name: Georgia Cup Team Time Trial

Race Date: 8/8/09

Race Placement/Time/Qualification: 2nd AG (Men under 140 cumulative age) by less than a second, agh.

Tell us about your race (limit 250 words)…: Don’t drop the guy who writes your workouts.

Hill repeats:

Find a hill with a 15% to 25% grade that is ~ 10 miles long.

Warmup for 30 seconds, then do 20x 1:00 efforts in HR zone 5z. 10 second uphill recoveries. Do this in the hottest part of the day while wearing a vest made of depleted neutron stars.

All kidding aside, this was my first cycling-only race, and thus my first TTT. It makes the TTT in the TDF all that much more impressive, not so much because of the speeds they obtain, but because of how well they can work together as a team. It can be quite hard to keep gaps from forming.

Given that we (John Eddlemon, Brett Daniels, and Tyler Campbell) hadn’t done any TTT practice together, I think we did a solid job. If you’re a firm believer in learning curves, then you could argue “this was the worst TTT we will ever do”.